Survival Guide

Survival Guide

December 20, 1992

DO IT TODAY

THE YEAR IN REVIEW ON WHRO. Daily Press assistant metro editor Felicia Mason and reporter David Lerman will be among guests on Crosstalk on WHRO-TV at 4:30 and 11:30 p.m. today. The Daily Press staffers, along with associate editor Glen Scott and reporter Joseph Coccaro of the Virginia Pilot, will sum up the most important events of the year in Hampton Roads. Mason and Lerman will also do a guest spot at 1:30 p.m. Monday on WHRV-FM (89.5).

LIVE NATIVITY. See ``No Room at the Inn'' from 7 to 8 tonight at Hampton Livestock Stables, 7 Seldendale Drive, Hampton. Admission will be nonperishable food items to be donated to the Salvation Army. Visitors are encouraged to wear walking shoes or boots and dress warmly.

VISIT NAVY SHIP. Visit the guided missile cruiser, USS San Jacinto, at pier 24, outboard berth 1, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. today at Norfolk Naval Station. Visitors without a base sticker must show a driver's license and car registration at the pass office on Hampton Boulevard across from gate 5.

REMINDER. By special arrangement with the North Pole Post Office, the employees of the Newport News Post Office will ensure that Santa Claus receives and answers all properly addressed letters. Free pre-addressed labels are available at the retail service counter or address your letters to: Santa Claus, c/o Postmaster, Newport News, VA 23607-9998. All letters must bear a complete and legible return address with the name of the sender clearly indicated.

HIGHWAY HEADACHES

BENNETT'S CREEK BRIDGE. The northbound passing lane of Route 17 at Bennett's Creek Bridge in Suffolk will be closed from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Dec. 31 for bridge maintenance.

I-64, VIRGINIA BEACH. Traffic will be detoured around the Indian River Road area of westbound Interstate 64 tonight from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. tonight through Tuesday nights to pour the bridge deck. Use outer connectors to get back to I-64.

MERCURY BOULEVARD, HAMPTON. Alternating eastbound and westbound lanes of Mercury Boulevard between Jefferson Avenue and the James River Bridge will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily on weekdays Monday through Dec. 31 for topsoiling and removal of pavement markings.

ASIAN FAMILIES. Asians in Hampton Roads are more likely to be part of traditional families than either white or black residents. Of all Asian households, 68.3 percent are married couple families. That's more than whites (62.6 percent) and blacks (41.7 percent).

SHE SAID IT

``We're all broke.'' - Blanche Lambert, a freshman member of Congress.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

``He does not glory in himself; therefore he excels.'' - Selections from Taoist Scriptures (from the Tao-Te King)